143: Love, loss, and other catastrophes by Alicia Sophia

Author:Alicia Sophia [Sophia, Alicia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RhetAskew Publishing
Published: 2018-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

12

We walked down the darkened streets of this beautiful city arm in arm, and maybe, just maybe, I was falling in love with more than just the city. My phone rang from my purse, on the floor near my feet at the restaurant. I nudged it with one foot, and then it started to ring again.

“Is everything okay?" she asked. "What do you want to eat? Wine or a mixer? Anything you want.”

I leaned down to get my phone out of my purse. Lee. I inhaled a sharp breath, held it in and hung up.

“Can I ask who keeps calling you, or no?” An awkward chuckle fell from her mouth.

I sat there staring at her, trying to force myself to smile and figure out some sort of excuse to walk outside and take the phone call. The phone started to vibrate again, and I lied. “My mother is calling. I never called her when I landed, and then I got caught up in other things.” I bit my lip while looking up at Judi, hoping my lie would ease her troubled mind.

“Go talk to your needy mother and I’ll order for the both of us. Just don’t take too long.” She winked.

I excused myself from the table, grabbed my new jacket, and walked outside with the phone vibrating in my hand.

“What?” I barked into the phone. “What do you want, Lee? What could you possibly want now?”

“Hi.” Her voice sounded tiny from the other end of the phone, like she was whispering to me from three thousand miles away.

“Hi,” I breathed out, letting loose a heavy sigh.

“I can’t believe you left, you just up and left, packed it all up and flew away.”

“You knew I was leaving, why do you seem surprised?”

I pressed my back up against the cold brick building, looking up at the sky, and wondering what in the hell I was doing out here. I held my breath the whole time she talked. My lungs were hot and my heart was beating out of my chest.

“Yeah, Lee. I left, I packed up and left, like I told you I was going to. I'm in San Francisco now. I don’t know what you want me to say. You left me, remember? You’re the one that said you were going to stay with your dad. You’re the one that ended us. And then there was Brittany, remember that gem? Will you please stop calling me? It is over. Just, please, stop.”

She sniffled from the other end. She was fucking crying. Jesus Christ.

“I'm sorry, Cami, you’re right, you’re absolutely right. I’ll stop bugging you, but to me, you’ll always be the one that got away.” And with that, she hung up.

I shook my phone in my hand. "Argh!" I wanted to call her back and tell her that she had no right barge into my life, especially when things were finally starting to look great for me. Ugh! A scream jammed in my throat, but instead I went back inside and sat at our table.

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